Sports Quotes - Page 126

Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

I can play in the center, on the right and occasionally on the left side.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

We know we cannot defend to be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.